The Other Green Revolution: Land Epistemologies and the Mexican Revolutionary State

Marchesi, Greta

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“…They are often a starting point for histories on the Green Revolution to trace the political relations and interests in the most well-documented geographies (c.f. Kumar et al, 2017 ; Marchesi, 2017 ; Chandler Jr., 1992 ). Historical analysis on participating non-U.S. institutions has only recently more closely examined the ways in which transnational networks, national research institutions and biological material were co-constitutive of a technopolitical hegemonic bloc.…”

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The Brazilian Green Revolution

Nehring

2022

Political Geography

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The Brazilian Green Revolution

Nehring

2022

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“…This programme has been described as 'the most far reaching in Latin America before Cuba and one which really did incorporate the peasants into national life' (Frank, 1969). By 1940, just under half of all cultivable land had been redistributed to ejidos and state support for traditional agriculture had been sufficiently developed that productivity on ejidos surpassed that of private holdings, accounting for just over half of the value of all Mexican farm production (Hewitt de Alcantara, 1976; DeWalt and Barkin, 1991;Marchesi, 2016). As a result, not only did the number of landless labourers in Mexico fall from 68% to 36% of the rural workforce (Hewitt de Alcantara, 1976), but migration out of the countryside was at its lowest rate in half a century (Unikel, 1975).…”

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“…Thanks to the Green Revolution, rural Mexico was largely reduced to the role of a labour reserve for capitalist interests within and outside the country (Gledhill, 1995;Ross, 1998b). (Barkin, 1990;DeWalt and Barkin, 1991;Frank, 1969;Gledhill, 1995;Hewitt de Alcantara, 1976;Marchesi, 2016;Perelman, 1977;Ross, 1998a;Stavenhagen, 1970;Unikel, 1975)…”

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Food Sovereignty, Agroecology And Biocultural Diversity

Pimbert¹

2017

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Contestations over knowledge -and who controls its production -are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity.This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity.'Food sovereignty' is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy.The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society.'This important book shows both how agroecology can democratize knowledge, and how democratizing knowledge in turn is a condition for agroecology to develop. We tend to reduce agroecology to a set of agronomic techniques that reduce the need for external inputs, that de-link food production from energy consumption, and that restore soil health. But it is, more fundamentally, about the direction of knowledge: agroecology operates the shift from top-down "extension" of knowledge by experts delegated by ministries, to a bottom-up approach prioritizing the local knowledge developed by farmers. It is empowering, horizontal, based on trial and error-but it is also, as this volume shows, another way of conceiving science.' -Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2008-2014), Co-Chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), Belgium 'The surge of industrial farming, mega-use of pesticides, and chronic commercialisation which appeared to "grow" the world also created a cascade of painful issues relating to poisoning "Mother Earth", generating inequities, and destroying biodiversity and cultural heritage.This book provides not just insights into those issues but, more importantly, it explores the knowledge and transformative ways of knowing we now need to re-enchant the world. Deepening knowledge democracy is key for reclaiming food sovereignty, rooting agroecology, and promoting biocultural diversity.This book ...

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“…2002), the insights of political ecology are as relevant as ever. While political ecologists, among many others, recognise the centrality of soils to the production of food and fibre, matters of public health, and the stability of everyday livelihoods (Lyons 2016; Marchesi 2017; McNeill and Winiwarter 2010; Sutter 2015; Zimmerer 1993), the racial politics of soils remain largely unexamined. Yet “blood and soil” politics—those marked by purportedly organic links between race and territory—shape the spatial history of the present in profound, and profoundly violent, ways (Harney and Moten 2017:83; Kiernan 2008).…”

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“The long‐time requirements of the nation”: The US Cooperative Soil Survey and the Political Ecologies of Improvement

Sant

2018

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Soil surveys are one of the most powerful tools of modern statecraft, yet they have received little critical scrutiny. This article examines the early history of the US cooperative soil survey, from its founding in 1899 through the New Deal, and argues that it functioned not only as a tool of agricultural modernisation but also as a technology for the development of white nationalist state power. The founding of the soil survey, for instance, was successful based on its claims to resolve post‐frontier racial anxieties about national vigour. Over the next several decades soil surveying grew increasingly central to the execution of state power and arguably formed the basemap for New Deal conservation and planning efforts in the 1930s. The New Deal's decentralised and democratising projects promoted a more inclusive liberal nationalism, yet still supported the reproduction of white supremacy. This analysis shows how taking racial politics more seriously adds depth to studies of environmental governance, and suggests a model for doing so that highlights the articulation of race, nature, and nation through logics of improvement. Soil surveys remain an important political‐ecological technology today and deserve more critical scrutiny. Political ecologists might also work with land reform and reparations movements to determine if and how soil surveys could be useful for liberatory projects.

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The Other Green Revolution: Land Epistemologies and the Mexican Revolutionary State

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